Comments on: Ad astra per alia porci http://delarue.net/blog/2007/10/ad-astra-per-alia-porci/ …acting on knowledge, communication and learning Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:42:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Keith http://delarue.net/blog/2007/10/ad-astra-per-alia-porci/comment-page-1/#comment-5538 Keith Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:19:40 +0000 http://delarue.net/blog/2007/10/ad-astra-per-alia-porci/#comment-5538 Helena - Thanks for the comment - and the link! I just love "Pigasus"! Mind you, I also think that Hermann is a cute name, too... Interesting that Elaine Steinbeck's hand-written note seems to refer to a different story of the origins of the motto. Helena –

Thanks for the comment – and the link! I just love “Pigasus”! Mind you, I also think that Hermann is a cute name, too…
Interesting that Elaine Steinbeck’s hand-written note seems to refer to a different story of the origins of the motto.

]]> By: helena http://delarue.net/blog/2007/10/ad-astra-per-alia-porci/comment-page-1/#comment-5537 helena Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:52:28 +0000 http://delarue.net/blog/2007/10/ad-astra-per-alia-porci/#comment-5537 Serendipitous but true; this morning i wandered past a shop and noticed a flying pig standing in the window. Hermann, as he is now named, is on his way home to take up position in my garden. A cast-iron beauty, the size of a cat, i was reminded not of Steinbeck, but of the 3 pink ceramic flying pigs that used to grace my office wall. "Earthbound, but aspiring", this is the story of my literary life. <a title="http://www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/biography/pigasus.jsp" href="http://www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/biography/pigasus.jsp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/biography/pigasus.jsp</a> Serendipitous but true; this morning i wandered past a shop
and noticed a flying pig standing in the window. Hermann, as he
is now named, is on his way home to take up position in my
garden. A cast-iron beauty, the size of a cat, i was reminded
not of Steinbeck, but of the 3 pink ceramic flying pigs that used
to grace my office wall. “Earthbound, but aspiring”, this is the
story of my literary life. http://www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/biography/pigasus.jsp

]]> By: Keith http://delarue.net/blog/2007/10/ad-astra-per-alia-porci/comment-page-1/#comment-5361 Keith Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:23:04 +0000 http://delarue.net/blog/2007/10/ad-astra-per-alia-porci/#comment-5361 In case you were wondering, the translation is: "To the stars on the wings of a pig". I checked my two Steinbeck books, and I can't find it there... But then, they are cheap paperbacks. In case you were wondering, the translation is: “To the stars on the wings of a pig”.

I checked my two Steinbeck books, and I can’t find it there… But then, they are cheap paperbacks.

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